Sport 927

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sport 927
Broadcast area	Melbourne
Frequency	927 Khz
First air date	February 1925, renamed as Sport 927 August 1996
Format	Sport
Owner	Victorian Racing Industry, Thoroughbreds, Harness & Greyhounds
Website	http://www.sport927.com.au

Sport 927 (callsign 3UZ) is a Melbourne radio station dedicated to covering races. And while much of the station is dedicated to covering Gallops, Harness and Greyhound racing, it does also cover other sports, dedicating the Breakfast program with Michael Christian and Angela Pippos starting at 5.30am weekdays with Prime Time Sports Interactive, while at night Andrew Kuuse delivers his Sportstalk program. Weekday mornings from 9am, Steve Moran hosts 'Racing Central' and covers all things racing including news updates and late mail until 10am. Nadia Horne takes over until 1pm as host of 'Winners' covering all racing broadcasts, Australia-wide form, essential wagering elements and interviews from a punting perspective. Afternoons and nights are the National Racing Service which broadcasts live feeds of racing meetings all over Australia, New Zealand and other countries like Hong Kong, England and South Africa. During the 12am-5am shift, Trevor Himstedt and Grant Boyden host Nightmoves- Monday to Friday.

As well as Australia’s best live racing coverage, the weekends deliver Casting Off, The World Of Bowls, Escape and the longest running program of its type on Australian radio, The Family Counsellor with Fr. Gerard Dowling.

Formerly known as 3UZ, one of Melbourne's oldest radio stations, being the first commercial radio station, commening in February 1925.

The station is rebroadcast by a network of stations throughout regional Victoria. Some members of this network are owned by Sport 927's owners, while others are not. Those not often have differences to the network programming during the evening-dawn period.

Unlike the other Australian racing networks, Sport 927 is owned by the state's racing industry, and not it's monopoly totalizator agency.

Ballarat and Shepparton have Commercial Licences that Relay Sport 927's Programming on 1314am Throughout Ballarat and and the South West of Victoria and 1260am Throughout the Goulburn Valley and the North East of Victoria.

[edit] External links

Sport 927 Official web site

This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications.
Primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of the article are generally not sufficient for a Wikipedia article. Please include more appropriate citations from reliable sources, or discuss the issue on the talk page.
This article has been tagged since December 2006.